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The Ministry of Manpower issued Ministerial Decision 38/2018 (the MD), implementing a six-month-long ban on the issuance of work permits for non-Omani individuals in 87 job categories in the private sector.

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Dentons is proud to announce that our Vancouver office has been recognized for a second consecutive year as one of BC’s Top Employers, reinforcing our team’s hard work and dedication that has enabled the Firm to achieve this level of excellence.

Equity Capital Markets

Equity Capital Markets

Equity Capital Markets

Tapping into the global equity capital markets is a complex business, filled with challenges and opportunities. To find the right path and ensure access to the funding and transactions necessary to achieve your goals, you need a proven partner who understands a shifting landscape.

Dentons has the depth of experience and vision necessary to help you minimize risk and maximize opportunities in the fast-moving global equity capital markets. Our team offers insight and expertise in equity fundraising and other stock exchange transactions, and we can assist in the efficient, proactive delivery of IPOs and secondary listings for both issuers and their advisors.

Only a firm with global reach can truly develop an integrated strategy, whether your transactions happen in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia or beyond. From reverse takeovers, secondary offerings or regulatory advice, to tax-advantaged securities, debt issuances and shareholder activism, Dentons can help you stand on solid ground.

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Experience

A&D Pharma: Advising the largest integrated pharmaceutical wholesale and retail business in Romania in connection with its admission to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. The project received the Deal of the Year Award from the Diplomat monthly publication and is the first listing of a Romanian company to the Main Market of London.

Arawak Energy: Advising on its listing on the London Stock Exchange.

Cadogan Petroleum plc: Advising a UK-registered oil and gas company with onshore assets in Ukraine on its £150 million IPO and listing on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

Capital Power: Advising on the completed sale of 9.2 million common shares of Capital Power to EPCOR at an offering price of C$24.40 per common share for aggregate gross proceeds to EPCOR of C$224,480,000. The aggregate offering was comprised of an offering of 8.2 million common shares at C$24.40 per share together with the underwriters’ exercise of an over-allotment option for the sale of an additional one million common shares at C$24.40 per share. The underwriting syndicate for the offering was co-led by CIBC World Markets Inc. and RBC Capital Markets. EPCOR’s wholly owned subsidiaries build, own and operate electrical transmission and distribution networks, water and wastewater treatment facilities, and infrastructure in Canada and the US. EPCOR is headquartered in Edmonton, AB. Capital Power is a growth-oriented North American power producer, also headquartered in Edmonton, AB. The company develops, acquires, operates and optimizes power generation from a variety of energy sources. Capital Power owns more than 3,300 megawatts of power generation capacity at 16 facilities across North America. An additional 487 megawatts of owned wind generation capacity is under construction or in advanced development in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.

Germany based property company : Advising a Germany-based property company in a €75 million issuer tender offer.

Guernsey investment company : Representing in the €600 million Euronext listing and US 144A offering of shares.

Haywood Securities Inc.: Advising in connection with equity and bond offerings by Northland Resources S.A. in Canada, Europe and the United States for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $325 million.

IBS Group Holding Ltd.: Advising on the GDR (Global Depositary Receipts) program listing on the regulated market (General Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as well as in connection with the admission of up to 24,855,244 GDRs with a prospectus supplement. This was the first prospectus for a GDR program approved by BaFin and the first admission of GDRs to the regulated markets in Germany. Our teams advised in Russia, the US, the UK and Germany.

Investec: Advising it in its role as broker to Synergy Health, a FTSE 250 Company, on its £22 million placing.

Major bank: Representing the ADR depositary bank for a major Chinese medical technologies company in it's CA$2.3 billion SEC-registered global ADR offering and NASDAQ listing.

Major bank: Representing the ADR depositary bank for a major independent Chinese television advertising company's CA$49 million SEC-registered global ADR offering and NYSE Arca listing.

Marengo Mining Limited: Advising on its proposed restructure and redomicile to Canada by way of a scheme of arrangement and previously on C$83.25 million in equity raisings in the aggregate. Advising Marengo’s geological and engineering consultants and staff on the requirements for technical reporting under National Instrument 43-101. Marengo Mining Limited is an Australian mining company exploring the Yandera Copper Project in Papua New Guinea, one of the largest undeveloped copper projects in the Asia-Pacific region. Its development partners include Chinese State Owned Enterprise, China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Foreign Engineering and Construction Pty Ltd, as well as Petromin PNG Holding Limited, an independent company created by the State of Papua New Guinea to hold the state’s assets and to maximize indigenous ownership and revenue gains in the mineral and petroleum sectors.

McEwen Mining Inc.: Advising on the cross-border offering of approximately $112 million of its common stock. The common stock was issued by way of a prospectus supplement that was filed under US Gold's shelf registration statement, which was previously filed with securities regulatory authorities in the US and in Canada under the northbound multijurisdictional disclosure system.

OJSC Sofrinskiy Experimental Mechanical Plant: Advising on the establishment of a GDR (Global Depositary Receipts) program and the listing of the GDRs at the Entry Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (March 2011). Sofrinskiy is a Russian producer of welded tin cans and one of the country’s leading manufacturers. Sofrinskiy was assisted by our offices in Frankfurt, London, New York and Moscow.

Victoria Gold Corp.: Advising the leading gold exploration and development company advancing the Eagle Gold Project in the Yukon to production, on Canadian legal and mining matters, including the sale of the Cove McCoy Property, located in Nevada, to Premier Gold for C$24 million; the sale to Barrick Gold Corporation in respect of the Mill Canyon Property, located in Nevada, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately C$48 million; and in relation to a bought deal public offering of common shares and flow-through common shares for C$30 million. Advising geological and engineering consultants and staff for Victoria Gold on the technical reporting requirements under National Instrument 43-101.

Insights

New FCA rules will prevent corporate banks, corporate brokers and investment banks from including in their terms of engagement clauses which give them the right to provide future capital markets and M&A services to clients.

The new EU Prospectus Regulation 2017/1129 (the Regulation) comes into force on 20 July 2017. The Regulation repeals and replaces the Prospectus Directive and will apply to all prospectuses issued on or after 21 July 2019. More immediately, however, from 20 July 2017 Main Market issuers will benefit from a change to the admission to trading exemptions and, from 21 July 2018, all issuers will benefit from a widening of the offer exemptions.

Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has introduced a number of changes to the listing admission requirements in the ASX Listing Rules which impose higher standards on entities seeking admission to the official list.

News and Events

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Dentons, the global law firm, today announced that private equity firm KSL Capital Partners and global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Apple Leisure Group, North America’s top seller of all-inclusive vacation packages, from Bain Capital Private Equity. The transaction is expected to close during the first quarter of 2017.

Dentons advised BankDhofar on the issuance of 200 million rights issue shares at an issue price of 200 baiza per share. The rights issue was fully subscribed. The transaction is an important milestone for BankDhofar with regard to its compliance obligations with the Basel III guidelines.

Dentons has strengthened its Capital Markets practice in Warsaw with the arrival of a new partner, Jakub Celiński, PhD. He moved to Dentons after 20 years at Baker & McKenzie, where he co-headed the Securities Practice Group. He joined along with Senior Associates Piotr Kowalik and Ryszard Manteuffel. Celiński and his team are based in the Warsaw office and will be responsible for developing the Equity Capital Markets and Public M&A practices.

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